Hi everybody,
I have a particular scenario and I'm trying to figure out which is the best way to approach it.
We currently have a small but dedicated community at a .com site which is running vBulletin 4.2. We've tried with the vBulletin stuff to transfer this to a vBcloud5 installation, but all attempts failed.
We have therefore decided to keep the old site as an archive and relaunch our community fresh on a .net site, running a standalone version of vB5 (no migration of content)
At the moment the new site is still somewhat under construction, but I would like to start redirecting people from the old site to the new.
However there are some caveats:
Thanks
I have a particular scenario and I'm trying to figure out which is the best way to approach it.
We currently have a small but dedicated community at a .com site which is running vBulletin 4.2. We've tried with the vBulletin stuff to transfer this to a vBcloud5 installation, but all attempts failed.
We have therefore decided to keep the old site as an archive and relaunch our community fresh on a .net site, running a standalone version of vB5 (no migration of content)
At the moment the new site is still somewhat under construction, but I would like to start redirecting people from the old site to the new.
However there are some caveats:
- As mentioned, the plan is to keep the old site as an archive for members to view, at least for the near future.
- Since we are intending on migrating this old .com installation to a much cheaper server, we (i.e the admins) still need access to do some work on the site, such as deleting hundreds of thousands of old empty topics (we drew from many RSS resources to create 'closed topics' for several years....you won't believe the database headache...).
- So what I am looking for specifically are one of two options:
- Either a full redirect (301?), but such that I would still be able to give my users a way of accessing the old site without being redirected.
- Placing a countdown redirect for like 5 seconds, which gives the user the possibility of cancelling and remaining on the old site (pretty sure i've seen this applied somewhere).
Thanks
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